Share the Family Recipes!

Several years ago, I started a cookbook project, with the intent to compile recipes from each of Dell and Pearl's children and their families. Several recipes were collected and I began researching the options for having them published . . . and it was more time-consuming and expensive than I anticipated . . . then all the recipes got stuck in a drawer and thought about less and less.

Until now. Who needs another book on a shelf? We're going online! I am still adding all the recipes I was sent years ago, but it's a start. (Notice the recipes submitted from kids who are now teens?) And I'd love to continue adding! So if you have a recipe to add to our family cookbook, please send it to me in an email and I will get it right up! Feel free to add any anecdotes attached to the dish too. Photos would be great as well!

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Happy eating!

Maine Potato Candy

Rosalie Robison Risk

¾ cup cold mashed potatoes
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
4 cups confectioners' sugar
½ teaspoons salt
4 cups shredded coconut, chopped
4 squares melted baking chocolate

Plain mashed potato is used, no milk, butter, salt or pepper is added. Mix
potatoes and confectioners' sugar; stir in coconut, vanilla and salt. Blend well. Melt
chocolate over warm, not hot water. If water is too hot under the melting pot it will cause the chocolate to have white streaks as it dries. Spoon melted chocolate over the candy which has been pressed into a buttered pan to the depth of 1/2 inch. Cool and cut into squares. For haystacks, mold mixture into chocolate-like shapes and dip the lower half into the melted chocolate and set on wax paper to cool.

Source: Bangor Daily News. This is a common candy recipe in Maine, since they grow a lot of potatoes. These are a good addition to a box of Christmas candies, or add some to a May Basket! You can substitute chocolate morsels for the baking chocolate. At one time this candy was manufactured as Needhams, similar to Almond Joys.

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